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Post by dave on Aug 6, 2019 9:51:18 GMT -6
Sounds like an easy job for a small helicopter like the ones they use to spray herbicides. Any of those around? I am sure there are copters around here. The trouble is that they all want to get paid to do anything.
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Post by dave on Nov 16, 2019 8:45:21 GMT -6
Well we got it done. They ended up allowing us to use that installation money to hire help. I am supposed to go back up there with the conservation district guy to inspect our work on Tuesday. I sure hated even riding with another guy down into those lower troughs. 4wheel drive low range first gear and crawl down and back up. There was an old round galvanized trough at one site. We discussed rolling it off the hill to see if it would make it to the river. That is 2,000 feet elevation drop and serious steep all the way there. I ended up being in charge of getting all the supplies. The troughs and RR ties cost what they budgeted. The BLM supplied all the T posts and wire we needed. The thing they didn't have in their budget was all the plumbing parts and float valves. They did allow moving money from the installation budget to cover it. We plumbed in 5 troughs (one was already there). The total to do that came to a little over $1,000. I am out over $5,000. I get reimbursed but some how I don't think it will happen too quickly. I will remember to get pictures when I am up there on Tuesday.
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Post by dave on Nov 19, 2019 16:07:07 GMT -6
Here is a picture of one of the troughs. The second picture I turned and took two steps to my right and aimed the camera down the hill. There is about 1,500 feet elevation difference between where I am standing and that road. This site is sort of on the flanks of Sheep Mt. And it is not named for the wooly sheep.
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Post by birddog on Nov 19, 2019 19:04:57 GMT -6
I bet the wild life will love it. It would be a good place to set up a game cam.
Years ago I had a place that had a lot of rock and ponds and creeks wouldn't hold water. The neighbor had an old homestead in a wooded area on his place that still had a working waterline. He used it to fill up a trough even when he didn't have cattle on the place. I saw many a deer coming and going from that trough as it was the only water around that wasn't right up next to the main road where everybody else had their trough. Every varmint around used it.
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Post by dave on Nov 19, 2019 19:19:41 GMT -6
I bet the wild life will love it. It would be a good place to set up a game cam. Years ago I had a place that had a lot of rock and ponds and creeks wouldn't hold water. The neighbor had an old homestead in a wooded area on his place that still had a working waterline. He used it to fill up a trough even when he didn't have cattle on the place. I saw many a deer coming and going from that trough as it was the only water around that wasn't right up next to the main road where everybody else had their trough. Every varmint around used it. I would imagine they will use it some. The last day we spent working on them we saw 8 or 9 deer. One was a pretty decent buck. Last year I set up a game camera on a water trough that is a long ways from any other water source that I know of. Never got a single deer. Just birds. On the way there this morning I saw a band of bighorn sheep by the road down in the bottom.
The pipeline in this system is a little over a mile long. Two troughs at both ends. The picture is the one in the middle. I forgot to take a picture at the spring end, I took these pictures while waiting for the guy from the conservation district who went to look at the troughs at the bottom end. My quad is in the shop so I had the wife's quad. It has seen better days. It barely made it up the hill getting out of where I was. The hill down to those last troughs is much steeper.
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Post by cowrancher75 on Nov 20, 2019 5:52:52 GMT -6
pretty dang steep!
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Post by dave on Nov 23, 2019 18:39:57 GMT -6
This is a picture from the road looking up. The trough and that goat trail the BLM calls a road is somewhere up on that rim.
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